I will be trying this out shortly. My AE skills are getting better thanks to AETUTS!

AHH Yeah! You’ve done it again. Cheers!

wow… that looks sooooooo COOL!!! Can’t wait to try it..

Another fresh edition for my tryouts !! Thanks for sharing !!

Impressive!

Very well done. A lot of great resources to use in future projects. Thanks!

I REALLY like the look of this one. The possibilities are endless and I can’t wait to give it a try. I use AE almost everyday but have never bothered to learn how to effectively use scripts. Thank-you!

These ara some VERY VERY VERY handy tips&tricks. Using scripts can make a life much easier.

Thanks

Oh! I love it!

Oh my good !!!

Cute !! :´)

http://www.kibesteira.com.br

Thanks a lot! Why don’t translate it in other languages?

I can help with the Italian! ,-D

this is to cool! great great great

Lloyd!!!! YES!!!! I haven’t had a chance to do this one yet….but all I have to say is HE** YES! THIS is what I’ve been talking about! Expressions, complication……ADVANCED AE! Thank you…thank you….thank you! I can’t wait to dig into this one! I’ll post a comment after I’m done!

I like that you include tutorials with expressions and scripts it makes it alot easier to do complicated things, especially if you used to programming!

Really cool guys! Keep up the level!

I Love this Site!

/me dies of boredom

Hey me and my friends are working on a tutorial site check it out at http://www.hazystudio.com

Also man this must take a beast of a computer to render.

Thanks for the great tutorial. I really love the Cinematic titles here!

Cool stuff!

Crazy idea and a perfect realization. I got goosebumps watching it!

Loyd is the King in here!:)

This was nice! Great job Loyd, please keep it up!

Nice job but why don’t you give us the AE project as well. That would be Super nice as well. Thanks

Propz! I recently got AE and this site is my go to source for Tuts! I was getting bored with the basic stuff. Great tutorial! Keep ‘em coming.

Lmao I saw my comment in the video!

@Patrick Riley….I’m looking forward to your site. Tried to check it out but still under construction. Keep us informed!

Lloyd….one other thing. These are the types of tutorials that people working in the field can put to use in their own projects. I just used your flower fireworks tutorial in a video presentation my wife is making today to a real estate company. Their logo is a leaf…and Particular did a fantastic job turning that logo into a cool firework effect. This tutorial can be adapted to….I can’t adapt a simulated sea battle into anything useful. LOL!

Thanks again….as someone else said…you are the AE KING!

Loyd you seem to be a multigenious. Really smart solutions. You are great at maths an creative to, a rare combination. I hope you suck at least at Basketball:)

nice and simple will try that one soon..

http://www.quickurl.biz

Absolutely Amazing

what the f… it’s awesome

realy realy nice

that was pretty tight. like OMG, best opening preview I’ve ever seen.

I wana see how you make the block build up for the logo, you should also let give us the project file to see some more stuff.

EPIC TUTORIAL

Wow how awesome is that…and I saw my name…TWICE! Very cool effect…definitely going to add that to my list of stuff.

absolutely beautiful!

Impressive! I was really amazed when I saw that my comment was the second one to appear.

I’m speechless, that was amazing. I can’t wait to try this tutorial!

Great idea of using the comments at the beginning it looks really cool.
Now for some constructive criticism!
The ending was a little bit slow, it could be sped up just a little bit.

Other than that great!
Ben

Wow this is really useful, thanks.

PS: I saw my comment in there

Haha I totally dig this

Love this site. Working on my videos now…

Nice one
Love how you quoted me

The Trapcode one and this are two of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen.
Really really nice.

Thank You!

I suggest you use this preset by Andrew Kramer inconjunctio with this scene. Will save a lot of time and give a nicer result.

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_falloff/

Cool. One for my projects to try out on a Sunday!

Things are starting to pick up here.

OK…..I’m done with Day 1! Simply amazing so far…..Come on Lloyd….where is Day 2????? I’m dying here!!! Seriously, though….great tutorial so far. Probably the best one since the Trapcode Form one! AMAZING!

WoW

Hi there,
I seem to be having the problem of the text documents reading from right to left. All of my text comes in backwards, even though the layer names in the timeline do display the text in the proper direction.

I tried putting a camera in and rotating it 180 degrees around to the back, but the layers are not just flipped in a 3d space, they are reading in reverse. I don’t see a control in the script for text direction, so hopefully there’s some obvious explanation for this.

Thanks,
Kyle

What is the title of the music?

Figured out my problem.. take a look at your character panel before you run this script because that’s how AE will interpret your text. I had my tracking set to -700, thus it was backwards.

-K

AETUTS…you guys rock. I personally give you two thumbs UP! Keep up with the work!

@Frank – It’s called Extraterrestrial, there’s a link to it above

Awesome! ! ! !

My god, Amazing tut,
how long did it take you become a motion graphics expert?
PSD/AETUTS rock!!!!

This is a great script, nice implementation. I tried something similar once – but you have pulled it off a bit better

Wow, that was pretty cool. I’ll try this out.

This looks awesome. I think I’ll try it.

wowww..this is awesome .i like when the words go fast and finally the AETUTs came out .nice work dude

Awesome tutorial! cant wait for day 2

I really gotta get started with AE but…half the time you gotta use a 3rd party script and their all trials which kinda pisses me off…also the tutorials u gotta wtach em in HD to understand properly, but then it’s not easy to go back to AE…RealPlayer also can’t download the vid, any suggestions???

Looks sweet

gime more..more more…love AE

@RUGRLn….you clearly don’t understand AE. Sure, the trapcode plugins accentuate your projects….and sure, HD looks great….ANYTHING looks better in HD. However there are TONS of tutorials on the internet (go to videocopilot.net for lots) that use just the built-in features of AE. You will never learn AE until you start working with AE. It sounds to me like you just want to complain rather than do…..no one is going to have a suggestion for you if you aren’t willing to start learning.

Great Tutorial. Just found out about this site.

******QUESTION:******

After I apply the the LayerRandomShifer and then massage my timeline to rearrange the comp layer’s, my text stops appearing after a certain point. In this case, after 8 seconds my text stops typing on. I may be missing something, though I have went through this tutorial 5 times and I still have the same issue. What may I be doing wrong? Thanks.

Mattocks

I want to know what song he used. XD

@Masttocks – If you want your text to keep typing for more than 8 secs then you should slow down the speed of the type on effect. This is why I added it as an option in the control layer.

@Levi – I linked to the song used above. The song is called Extraterrestrial and I got it from Audio Jungle.

Wow

wow… unbelievable..

I loved the idea of put the commentaries in the video.

Simply Beautiful, unfortunately I have only version 7, still however many of the scripts were available and I just worked with what I had.

Lloyd, thanks for all the info @ AESCRIPTS.com also.

ola galera gringos que site maneiro sou do brasil tenho 15

Nice Scripts Lash pash thnks

That is amazing, but what is the text file exported from that? I tried importing a .docx and it came very messed up.

@Rafael – You need to use a regular text file .txt

Thank You Very Much. This is a very interesting site, i discovered it today and I can tell i feel like i have missed an important part of my life.

I can not see any of the tutorials (flash installed etc)
it says:
loading
done

yesterday evereything was fine..

thank you
cs4 expression:offset i not fount.
can you tell me?

i think if you used horizon in the back groound with the camera moving about it will sell it because then you will also have a 3D world

WOW is all I can say.

YES! YES! YES! Feed me by spoon and make the tuts coming..absolutely love it!

Awesome piece, I’d love to learn it but unfortunately you site aescripts.com is getting a server 500 error. Just to let you know Keep up the good work!

Amazing tutorial! I got so inspired I made a similar version. Keep up the amazing work!

AMAZING!!! GREAT JOB DUDE!

Once again, a really amazing tutorial! THX!

Here is my result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq6PySBR_jY

HOW THE HELL DO YOU WATCH THIS? It takes like forever to download… Is there any way to turn HD off?

hi Lloyd your openning title is nice, but you create your tutorial sooooooo boooooooooooring. Why? you talk to much about nothing, instead to create and explaine… i watched just the first 2 minute.

Have a nice day

so much to learn…

Hi Lloyd,
I happily stumbled upon your tutorial yesterday, hours after posting a question on Yahoo Answers about that exact effect.

I’m following along pretty well, but one thing I don’t understand is how your rendering/previewing happens so much faster than mine seems to… Any tips?

Thanks!

How much would it cost to do something like that. can someone contact me. if u can do this for me. contact me with cost.

Hi Loyd , love your Tut but i’ve stumbled into a problem with the expression to animate the text ,

when i do “time*thisComp.layer(“control”).effect(“Speed”)(“Slider”)”

it works but like you said i should subtract the inpoint of the layer to make sure it works correctly, but when i do

(time – inpoint)*thisComp.layer(“control”).effect(“Speed”)(“Slider”)

it bumps me back with the error

“After Effects warning: Class ‘global’ has no property or method named ‘inpoint’
Expression disabled”

Does CS4 handle this differently ? How can i fix this ? thx !

When I “import” my lines of text through the script, they all show up as layers, but only about 3-4 (Out of 50) actually show up on the preview window. I can’t figure out why! Please help!

Thanks, and great tutorial so far!

” When I “import” my lines of text through the script, they all show up as layers, but only about 3-4 (Out of 50) actually show up on the preview window. I can’t figure out why! Please help! ”

I’ve tried over and over running the script with different numbers of layers created, different colors run in the script, and even double checked my text file a ton of times, but still only about 3-4 layers actually show up in my project, i’ve even zoomed out as far as possible and looked for my text lines, but just can’t find them!

Can someone post a link to this script file: Shift Selected Layers Script (download pt_ShiftLayers_v2.0.zip).

That link is not working.

Thanks

Can someone please send me a copy of the staggering Layers script?

does it matter that I have textwrangler 2.1, because when it scans my document it comes up as only 1 entry total and there is like 400 entries, just curious… I really like this effect, and I am stoked to try it out if possible.

Hey Lloyd, incredible tutorial. You have mad skills.

Great tutorial! I was wondering tho when you go to animate text and go to expressions under offsets, What is that in CS4 because expressions dont show up. Thanks

I love this tutorial but, when I put in the code it still only brings up one sentence and it does not note the other statements in the text wrangler file. I am 100% certain that I have followed all of the steps closely and that all the steps I took were verbatim and everything checks out. Could I possibly need after effects CS4 vs. CS3? I thank you in advance, I really dig this effect.

Can you upload the project file?, i cant watch the video anymore and i got stuck in the middle. I want to do this for my grandparents 60th aniversary.
Thank you!

I need to finish this before april 5th.

Lloyd,

Your tutorials are great. I really want to thank you for taking the time to share your expertise.

I’ve run into a glitch. The text is unreadable when it pops up on the screen. It almost seems like there are two lines of text on the same layer.

If that makes any sense to you, would you know what I might be doing wrong?

Lloyd,

I don’t know what happened but it works now. I simply re-entered the “\n” what-you-may-call-it.

Thanks. BTW, did I mention your tutorials are great. You’ve got great imagination and technical skills.

Great tutorial! I was just curious about what the time your markers were placed at. Thanks.

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Great tutorial thanks

Great tutorial.

I’ve come across a slight problem relating to the KindaSorta Script. Basically i’m importing the lyrics of a song. But when i run the script it re-sorts the actual layers randomly. So the layers are in the right order in the composition (i.e. they’ve been sorted), but the source layers in the timeline have been given a new order so the end result is wrong? Any ideas?

I’m having trouble viewing. It stalls about 15 seconds in.
Advice?
Looks beautiful though, I’d really like to watch it.

just watching it right now, love the expressions explanations!! thx!!

i have same problem man the inpoint tell me to my mail add plz plz plz

thanks plz

hi sir i have a problem

whan i do time*20 ok and hilight 20

“time*thisComp.layer(”control”).effect(”Speed”)(”Slider”)”

it works but like you said i should subtract the inpoint of the layer to make sure it works correctly, but when i do

(time – inpoint)*thisComp.layer(”control”).effect(”Speed”)(”Slider”)

it bumps me back with the error

“After Effects warning: Class ‘global’ has no property or method named
‘inpoint’

Expression disabled”

plz help me and tell to my email plz

someone send me the link
of this pt express edit scripts

plz plz plz

but don’t download

plz helps me

and i want to study more about scripts after effect

Hi, I have AE 6.5. how can i change the scripts that actually function with AE CS. So that they can function with Ae 6.5. Thanks a lot for the tutorial. Irina

Hi Lloyd,

This is really a great tutorial. I was messing around with it and thought that rather than having the text continue off screen it would be nice to have them fade. I tried to do this by adding another couple of sliders in the control layer and duplicating the linear expression in opacity. Then I substituted my control names, but it didn’t work. Is my logic flawed?

thanks – Bruce

Hey Lloyd, great tutorial!

Quick question for you : When I import my text wrangler file some of the longer sentences that I am using get cut off. I seem to only be able to import 30 characters (spaces included). Anything over that gets cut short.

Any idea on what may be causing that since in the tutorial you use comments that are well over 30 characters long.

Thanks in advance and keep up the great work!

we will have to buy the 3d layer distributer script?????

anyone have this file 3d_text_creator_from_file.jsx to make a upload ?
im from brazil, and now need to pay to make a download..

i realllyy want to do this tut, i need the script,
anyone con help me ?

thanks

anyone have this file 3d_text_creator_from_file.jsx to make a upload ?
im from brazil, and now need to pay to make a download..

i realllyy want to do this tut, i need the script,
anyone con help me ?

thankss!

Hey men I love your tutorial but why do we have to pay for the scripts? its unfair men

Great tutorial! Thank you! It would be good to see the expressions in case of errors while making this project. Are they listed anywhere?

this video is perfect .
I like this effect .
thanks a lot.

Definitely one among the best AE tutorials I’ve ever seen on the net!!!
Many thanks and keep them coming!

very good tutorial but it’s must pay the script, i want a tutorial, with a free add-on, pfff after 3 yaers on after effect, this give me to surrender aef 7.0, pfff.
But i know the hard work of the graphic designer, it’s so hard, thanks for this good tutorial it’s very easy to use aef with these tutorial thanks !

P.S : Sorry for my english I’am french…

flat out awesome….trying really hard to do this but you have set the bar!!

1 problem im having is at 19:30, when i click the stop watch it does not open an expression for me to alter the time….any ideas?

thanks again for an awesome tutorial!!

Lloyd,

I’m using this tutorial to create a video clip for my sister’s wedding. In this tutorial you use a reduced number of text layers.

Could you let us know how many layers you used in the “final” version?

Thank you in advance!

how did you edit the music together its been bugging me for some time can you post a tutorial on it please thx

wow….awsome!!! thanks give me mre>>>>>>>>>>

You can lower the display resolution of the comp as well as turn off the camera depth of field and reduce the number of layers that are visible at one time. You can use my Zorro script to create selection groups and quickly turn them on and off.

Desperately need to know how many text layers you used in your final composition.

Lloyd,

I paid a membership to this site. I also bought some of your extensions. Could you please let me know how many “flying” text layers you used in your final comp for this piece?!? That’s all. A one-word response would be fine!

Crossing my fingers that I hear from you.